IBM Selectric II User Manual

Inserting and Alignmg Paper
Copy Guide
The Copy Guide keeps your paper from
refeeding around the
p\aten, guiding it
instead toward the back of the
typewriter.
It also serves as a convenient surface for
making erasures.
Paper Centering Guides
Printed on the left and right side of the
Copy Guide are small white horizontal
brackets — the Paper Centering Guides.
To center Standard size (8-1/2" x
11")
paper in the typewriter, position the
paper to
align with the outer edges of
the Paper Centering Guides. Center 8"
wide paper with the inner edges of
these Guides.
Paper
Centoring Sc£>e
Center any width paper in the carriage
using the Paper Centering Scale. Insert
the paper so that its left and right edges
touch the same number on the scale; e.g.
for 11" wide paper each edge touches
5-1/2.
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IBM Selectric II Specifications

General

Type	Electric typewriter
Introduced	1971
Keyboard	QWERTY
Height	6.5 inches
Typing speed	15 characters per second
Carriage width	13 inches
Pitch	10 or 12 characters per inch
Manufacturer	IBM
Power supply	120V AC
Correction System	Lift-off tape
Ribbon type	Fabric ribbon
Colors available	blue
Typing Element	Interchangeable spherical type element (typeball)